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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

PLAYOFFS: Round 1

-Screw the regular season, this is what it’s all about.

-Remember that 23 week marathon we just finished? Yeah, all that’s good for is to determine the seeding for the big tournament, now the matchups REALLY matter.

-The two best teams got bye weeks. That would be #1 Bone Corp and #2 Barclay Hill Mollies. They also guarantee themselves a spot in the medal round, even if they lose next week.

-This tournament is particularly strange because Reed Dynasty isn’t in it, which means for the first time ever someone else will win the Bronze trophy.

-After two seasons of ‘close but not quite’ Mario’s Militia has made it to the second season. Great, now he can play the same team he played last week, that would be the Dump and Chasers.

-I said last week that it was possible that MM and D+C could see each other 2 weeks in a row, and here we are:

(Déjà vu)


-D+C beat Mario last week 11-4-3; will there be more of the same?

-One thing I know is that the Dump wins specialty stats every single week, they’re beasts. Add the fact that the Chasers goalies have been hot and I think you’ve got a recipe for success.

-I predicted that Mario would win last week, so this time I’ll go with Dump and Chasers.

-More of the same but maybe a little different, I say 10-5-3 in favor of D+C.

-The Dump never looked better:


-But hey, it’s the playoffs, anything can happen.

-The other first round matchup is Farls Regime vs Halfhill Crusade.

-These 2 have played each other in the playoffs each season, so it’s no surprise that they meet again.

-In season 1 my Regies took out the Crusaders in the second round. Last year Halfhill took me out in the epic two week finale.

-This year the Regime will smoke the Crusade like a bad cigar:

(I can taste it now...)


-I might be biased here but the Crusade isn’t quite what they could be right now, just look at all these injuries they have to key players. Chara is out, Hossa could play this Sunday, Smyth is hurt again, Zubov is out and Bergeron is out.

-Hossa is still only scoring goals on your NHL ’95:


(Can’t wait to see it for real)


-Those are all keeper players, not just scrubs.

-3 weeks ago when these two teams met, Regime couldn’t take any goalie stats but they took most of the specialties and all of the offensive #’s on way to a 10-7-1 win:


(The Regime was and still is a well oiled machine)


-Déjà vu again. I predict a 10-7-1 victory/upset by Farls Regime.

-I’m not sure if that is a prediction or if that is what I am hoping for; it’s complicated.

-Either way, Regime nation is getting ready for another run at the cup:


-That’s all for me, enjoy the playoffs while your in it or else you’ll be doing this before you know it:


-Good luck to all and don’t forget what’s at stake:

(Not sure if it still looks like this…)

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